Prof Frances Nethercott

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2928

Email

fn4@st-andrews.ac.uk

Location

St Katharine's Lodge

Office hours

On Research Leave (Semester 1), by appointment (Semester 2)

 

Research areas

My research covers Russian intellectual and cultural history from the eighteenth century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and its immediate aftermath. In particular, I am interested in the phenomenon of ‘cultural transfer’, namely, the contexts in which ideas and intellectual trends emerge and their transformation once they ‘cross borders’ and enter the fabric of otherwise different cultural and intellectual traditions. In practice, this involves the study of French and German intellectual developments and their reception in Russia.

My current project focuses on the ‘literary dimension’ of Russian historiography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

PhD supervision

• Quinn Mann

Selected publications

• Not just a light-hearted joke: Russian Moreana from the age of Karamzin to the rise of social democracy and Lenin's 'Stele of Freedom'

  Nethercott, F. M., 30 Nov 2023, The Oxford handbook of Thomas More's Utopia. Shrank, C. & Whitington, P. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 394-410 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Subir la victoire: essor et chute de l’intelligentsia libérale en Russie (1987–1993)

  Nethercott, F., 10 Feb 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Canadian Slavonic Papers. p. 1-2 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• English Tolstoism (angliiskaia tolstovshchina): interpreting Carlyle in revolutionary Russia

  Nethercott, F. M., 12 Nov 2022, In: Carlyle Studies Annual. 34, p. 189-213,261 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  The intelligentsia is dead, long live the intelligentsia! Alexander Solzhenitsyn on soviet dissidence and a new spiritual elite

  Nethercott, F., 1 Jun 2022, In: Russian Literature. 130, p. 29-50 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Writing history in late Imperial Russia: scholarship and the literary canon

  Nethercott, F., 26 Dec 2019, London : Bloomsbury Academic. 280 p. (Library of modern Russia)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Rethinking history: the 1964 interdisciplinary conference on methodological questions of historical science

  Nethercott, F. M., 31 May 2018, In: Rivista di Storia della Filosofia. LXXIII, 2, p. 251-264

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  The excursionism project and the study of literary places (1921-1924)

  Nethercott, F. M., 2017, In: Revue des Etudes Slaves. 88, 1/2, p. 221-235

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Reevaluating Russian Historical Culture

  Nethercott, F., 2014, In: Kritika-Explorations in russian and eurasian history. 15, 2, p. 421-439 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Russia and the West: Russian Histories of the European Other

  Nethercott, F. M., 2010, Europe and its Others: Essays on Interperception and Identity. Gifford, P. & Hauswedell, T. (eds.). Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, p. 225-244 (Cultural Identity Series; vol. 18).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Russian Liberalism and the Philosophy of Law

  Nethercott, F. M., 2010, A History of Russian Philosophy, 1830-1930: Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity. Hamburg, G. M. & Poole, R. A. (eds.). Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, p. 248-65 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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